Emmco Insurance v. Ocean Accident & Guarantee Corp.

REGAN, Judge.

Plaintiff,1 Ernest Grady, instituted this suit against the defendant, Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corp., Ltd., an insurer of the New Orleans Fire Department, endeavoring to recover the sum of $3698.85, representing personal injuries and property damage incurred as the result of a collision which occurred in the intersection of Broad Street and St. Bernard Avenue between plaintiff’s vehicle and a fire department maintenance truck, operated by John W. Couch. Plaintiff asserted that the proximate cause of the accident was the negligence of Couch in traveling at an excessive rate of…